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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing that makes Anita realize Oscar is right about their country?
(a) The way the teachers never veer from planned lessons.
(b) The way she has to erase her diary.
(c) The way her father and mother speak in low tones all the time.
(d) The way the Secret Police stand on every street corner.

2. When does Anita use a pencil?
(a) For her math homework.
(b) When she writes in her journal.
(c) To write down Carla's address.
(d) To draw pictures of things in her life.

3. What does Oscar talk about concerning the country?
(a) Its noble history.
(b) Freeing it.
(c) The lack of a good educational system.
(d) The class structure that keeps people poor.

4. What is another name for Mr. Smith?
(a) Smitty.
(b) El Patron.
(c) The Loco.
(d) El Jefe.

5. What does Lucinda say the men know about their cousins?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Where the cousins are.
(c) That the cousins have been arrested.
(d) That they are out of this country, but not yet at their destination.

6. What do the men in the Volkwagons want?
(a) To arrest Anita's mother.
(b) To buy stuff in the store.
(c) To search the property.
(d) To stay for a few days.

7. Why is school not opening on time?
(a) The government said they were not allowed to open.
(b) Many people are going to the United States to witness JFK's inauguartion.
(c) A hurricane damged many of the buildings.
(d) A fire damaged the cafeteria and auditorium.

8. What does Anita realize when she looks inside?
(a) The chickens are almost as cowed as the humans.
(b) Her cousin who went away with her uncle.
(c) The well is drying.
(d) Her uncle is there.

9. How old is Susie about to turn?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 21.

10. What does Chucha tell the children to pretend?
(a) That good will soon happen.
(b) That they haven't seen anyone.
(c) That they can leave when they want to.
(d) That they live in the United States.

11. What time of year is it when the novel opens?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Easter.
(d) Almost Thanksgiving.

12. What does Mami tell Anita and Lucinda to do?
(a) To keep quiet.
(b) Get Chucha and go to the store.
(c) Stay together.
(d) Flee out the back door.

13. Where is Tio Tony?
(a) He is missing.
(b) He is in the Bronx.
(c) He is in prison in Santo Domingo
(d) He is hiding in the mountains outside of Santo Domingo.

14. What does Papi tell the family to pretend?
(a) That the the family is being watched for their well being.
(b) That they have no idea where their cousins are.
(c) That the men who are watcing them are harmless.
(d) That they are not being watched.

15. What is Chucha's opinion about these men?
(a) They are the secret police.
(b) They are ruthless.
(c) They are hungry.
(d) They are officious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Oscar, who helps Anita see their leader in a different light?

2. Where are the children allowed off the compound?

3. What was Tio Tony involved in that makes him a wanted man?

4. Why do many people come to the compound?

5. What aspects of her country and of the United States does Anita compare?.

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